Let's get the rest of the phone's features out of the way first. Its candy-colored body design looks more or less like Nokia's previous Windows Phone models, but with a giant camera lens protrusion on the back. The front of the Lumia 1020 sports a 4.5-inch 1280x768 AMOLED screen. Inside, it's running on 2GB of RAM and a dual-core 1.5GHZ S4 SoC--double the RAM of the previous Lumia 920 and 925 models, but the same processor.

The PureView camera sensor is, of course, what sets the Lumia 1020 apart. The sensor is paired with a Xenon flash and 6-lens Carl Zeiss optics. Like the previous Nokia 808, this iteration of the camera can take an oversampled 5MP photo for an extremely high quality, noise-reduced shot that's actually in an easily shareable file size.

Nokia's Pro Camera app offers phone photographers the options to manually tweak ISO, focus, shutter speed, white balance, exposure and the flash. The camera shoots at a max res of 7712 x 5360 pixels; when shooting 1080p30 video, the camera's resolution allows it to zoom in up to 4x without getting into nasty digital zoom territory. Zooming works similarly for taking still shots, though it will produce a smaller photo without as much oversampling cleaning up the image. Check Nokia's gallery of sample photos here.